quotidian

Meaning

Adj

1. Happening every day; daily.
2. Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
3. Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
4. Something which is considered humdrum or dull.

Noun

1. (archaic, historical) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
2. (historical) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
3. (usually, with-definite-article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.

Synonyms

daily

everyday

unremarkable

workaday

routine

mundane

diurnal

commonplace

ordinary

day-to-day

unlovely

unpicturesque

amphemerous

day-by-day

methemerine

as usual

day-after-day

colloquial

common

matter-of-fact

plain

processes

prosaic

ready-made

regular

tides

Translations

quotidien

quotidiano

cotidiano

quotidiano

cotidiano

quotidienne

alledaags

täglich

gündelik

quotidià

dagelijks

ημερήσιος

tagesaktiv

alltäglich

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kwəˈtɪdɪən/

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).